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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by fire_lake on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:25AM (#43231330)
Efficiency is not resilient. Supply chains were efficient before Covid and look what happened. Efficiency is a non-goal for government. I’m surprised that DOGE engineers (who presumably have deployed a load balancer or two) don’t understand this.
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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by sgarland on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:33AM (#43231416)
> I’m surprised that DOGE engineers (who presumably have deployed a load balancer or two) don’t understand this.

You're surprised that the same geniuses who launched a site with an obvious exploit don't understand something about infrastructure? I'm more surprised that they haven't done something like rewriting a critical system in JS (with AI, obviously).

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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by delecti on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:44AM (#43231556)
The DOGE engineers are Musk sycophants, and Musk is tearing apart the government so he and other oligarchs can profit off the unmet needs.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/business/elon-musk-faa-air-tr...

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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by atq2119 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:41AM (#43231527)
You're overestimating the average competence of engineers. Besides, this is one of those situations where ideology easily trumps reason.
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